Marek Nikolajuk

Astronomy

Preprints and Abstract services

LANL (lanl.arXiv.org) or SOTON (uk.arXiv.org) preprint library

new astro-ph preprints
find astro-ph preprint
get astro-ph preprint

Smithsonian/NASA ADS Abstract Service (European mirror at ESO in Garching and CDS in Strasbourg)

ADS Article Service

Astronomy Journals

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)

The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), The Astronomical Journal (AJ)

Search UCP Astronomy Journals
AAS WWW bibliographical/abstract services

Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)

New Astronomy (NewA)

Handbooks (not only astronomical)

Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics by M. Zombeck

Numerical Recipies Books On-Line

Some useful links and manuals at page of ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Archives and Databases

NASA/IPAS Extragalactic Database (NED)

SIMBAD Astronomical Database (SIMBAD)

HEASARC Data Archive (HEASARC Full Browse)

The International AGN Watch

The CDS Service for astronomical Catalogues

ViezeR Service

The Lyon/Meudon Extragalactic Database (HyperLeda)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

NIST Atomic Spectra Database
Fundamental Physical Constants

Astro Calculators and Java Applets

HEASARC or CXC

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes

observability of objects by Staralt
number of object and sky photons by SIGNAL

NAOMI/OASIS

Esposure, S/N, Min flux Simulator

SALT

The Aladin Sky Atlas (Aladin applet in java)

SkyView – the Internet's Virtual Telescope (Advanced Interface)

Cosmology Calculator by Ned Wright (and an advanced version of this calculator)

Scientific software

X-ray related software and manuals

NASA's HEASARC Software (info about HEASOFT, download HEASOFT)
HEASOFT include:

A General Package of Software to Manipulate FITS Files (FTOOLS)

download FTOOLS | download HAESOFT

Data analysis for X-ray Astronomy (XANADU)

download XANADU | download HAESOFT
Xspec manual
Ximage manual
Xronos manual

IR/Opt/UV related software and manuals

IRAF Homepage (info and download)

XIRAF – The new way to start IRAF session (info and download)
STSDAS under IRAF (info and download)
xgterm and ximtool (info)

Voigt profile fitting program (VPFIT, download VPFIT)

vpguess – a graphical interface to vpfit (info about vpguess and download)

Other useful software/libraries

PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library (PGPLOT, download PGPLOT, quick installation on a Linux computer)

CFITSIO — A FITS File Subroutine Library (info and download)

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